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 Introducing The Windows Development TeamsThe Microsoft Developer Network has opened a new blog that has already gained plenty of popularity - 'Engineering Windows 7' - and it deals with the development process of Windows 7, while listening for feedback from fans. Rated 4.8 with 4 votes 3 years, 5 months ago by Andrew Pociu The listening ear of Microsoft has opened at blogs.msdn.com/e7/ where two senior engineering managers, Jon DeVaan and Steven Sinofsky are posting information on the process of engineering Windows 7 and listening to suggestions and questions from the audience. According to the two bloggers, the Windows operating system is assigned to a variety of teams, and each time consists of about 40 developers. These teams have remained fairly consistant over the years, and some of the large teams include:
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Wow, I didn't expect so many teams. That adds up to thousands of employees working on the operating system and a quick approximate calculation shows that MS is probably spending nearly a billion dollars each year just paying the employees working on this.
Ya, but these teams also build Windows Server, the Media Center and nearly everything that's Microsoft. So they make up for Bill's biggest... bill.
I hear they have about two more people employed for every developer. One that hands the work to the developer and one that tests what the developer does.
Ira:
That's a fabrication. There's no credible source that ever said something like that.
all i have to say is that windows 7 better be better than windows vista because right now vista sucks. right now all vista is good for is its MUIs and its good looks. but yet it has horrable application compatibility in my experience. and service pack 1 just made certian things worse, for me at least.
It's great the way Microsoft has all these teams in place...a lot of talented people but what vista seems to have shown is that while individual features (security, gui etc) were rather well done, the overall feeling of many is that it failed in its totality. The overall experience didn't work and wasn't pleasurable enough.
While the teams approach has its advantages it must be tied to a strong, overall 'vision' of what people want from an operating system and 'driven' accordingly. That doesn't seem to have happened with vista.
Hopefully future windows versions will be quicker, more modular in design, much less 'in your face' in that it doesn't keep getting in your road when you're trying to be productive.
According to this site's FAQ, there are "over 2000 developers and 500 managers" working on Windows 7. That's one manager for every 4 developers, I find that a little excessive.
Other than that, I understand why they have so many development teams, just not why so many managers.
Steven Wabik:
I agree. With vista, I can hardly run anything.
i dont abt windows7.....just now i check.i think its is better then vista
when windows 7 launch...
I think we have more security not for windows 7 to ask users again and again when they click for example on a file. but to prevent .exe files to infect the hole system with viruses.
I think you must work on seprated program files and startups and my documents for each users. and each users have their own privilages like in linux.
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